Ear piercing question:?!


Question: what material is best for me: hypoallergenic surgical stainless steel or 14-18k gold?

i'm allergic to silver, titanium, and 14k white gold (even though idk what the difference is from regular gold)


Answers: what material is best for me: hypoallergenic surgical stainless steel or 14-18k gold?

i'm allergic to silver, titanium, and 14k white gold (even though idk what the difference is from regular gold)

Use stainless steel - you'll have fewer problems. "White gold" is a blend of metals. Yellow gold is the "real thing", but it is mixed to get the 18k (24k is pure gold but is too soft for earrings).

Once your ears have healed up, in a couple of months, you should be able to wear just about anything provided you coat them with clear fingernail polish (it has to be re-coated periodically) which will keep the metal from your skin.

usually both are pretty similar, so I'd go with the hypoallergenic surgical stainless steel if you are allergic to the 14k gold.

Stick with stainless steel. This is generally what's used for the inital piercing anyways.

You should stick with the stainless. Hypoallergenic means that there is very little chance of being allergic to it.

Leave in the earrings that they used to pierce them with. Make sure your ears are healed completely and are not sore and it doesn't hurt at all to take the earing out and put in another one. If it does hurt put the earring back in that they used to pierce it with. Yes hypoallergenic is best, but a few months down the road u can try different kinds of earring and u will just have to see which ones you can wear. Keep ur earring and ears clean

Go with the surgical stainless-steel. One caution; many earrings have surgical steel posts but have nickel & other cheap metal in the earring itself so I always but a few packs of hypo-allergenic backs. Sometimes I have had to use a coating product like L'Protect on the part of the earring that touches the ear.

I'd go with the stainless, at least for the initial piercing. Once its healed..then switch to the gold. The only reason I'm suggesting this is because the piercings I had done with stainless (then switched to gold later on) healed the best, caused me the least amount of discomfort, and I'm still wearing them to this day. The holes that were made with 14k/18k itched like crazy, were constantly infected, and eventually had to be left to close up. I had them re pierced several months later, with stainless, and I had no problems whatsoever. Gold doesn't bother me, but for an initial piercing it does. Go with the stainless...because you seem to have the same metal allergies as me.

STAINLESS MOST DEFINATELY

My daughter has super sensitive ears, we use yellow 18k only.





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